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Ever since Russia resumed nuclear testing, both U.S. and European airplanes, particularly high-flying jetliners, have been bringing home unwanted cargoes of radioactivity. Such hot cargo was a recognized problem in the late 19505, but during the nuclear-test moratorium that began in 1958, the radiation level of the high atmosphere gradually decreased, and most airlines stowed their Geiger counters in mothballs. Recent Soviet tests have started the trouble all over again, and this time it is expected to grow worse and last longer. Jetliners of the 19605 fly well up in the stratosphere, where radioactive fission products linger...
...Cook for Mr. General (by Steven Gethers) unloads a cargo of G.I. psychos and supermisfits at a Pacific rehabilitation camp. There is a baby brain who cannot sleep without his blue blanket. There is a balmy barracks lawyer whose eyes roll around like loose marbles. And there is a bearded oddball mystic who wears his G.I. blanket like a poncho, and upon being asked his rank, replies: "Commander of the forces of the Lord...
Last May, however, the Islanders gained a local disciple, named Joel Bartley, who was intrigued, thankfully, not by the desperate gimmick of Lionel side-cars, but by the size and quality of their cargo. Mr. Bartley owns the Square's Harvard Spa Luncheonette (in the past little more than a collection of odds and ends: a good part of a stationery shop, half of a grocery more, and just a truncated bit of a soda fountain). Reportedly, Bartley had been dissatisfied with this assortment of leftovers for some time; and a hamburg revival became his means for a change...
...firm of Bechtel-McCone-Parsons, took on the added job of running the California Shipbuilding Corp. after the U.S. entered World War II. Starting from absolute scratch-its main yard was a swamp, and less than 1% of its 40,000 workers had shipbuilding experience-Calship turned out 467 cargo carriers and tankers in four years. At Calship, McCone worked 15 hours a day, organized the yard on an assembly-line prefabrication basis, stepped up production to record levels by improving welding techniques. After the war, McCone turned from making ships to running them: the Joshua Hendy Corp., of which...
Through a dismal midnight drizzle, the chartered DC-6B taxied toward the terminal building at Philadelphia's International Airport, with its cargo of the worst baseball team in the big leagues. The Philadelphia Phillies had just won a game. But the lonesome victory meant nothing, coming, as it did, at the end of the longest losing streak in modern baseball history (23 games). Through a rainfogged cabin window, Phillie Pitcher Frank Sullivan peered apprehensively out at the ramp, where a crowd of 250 damp Philadelphians stood like a lynch mob. "Get off the plane at one-minute intervals," Sullivan...